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Jim Mone / AP Communities of color battle with a loss of hope as they seek justice for the death of George Floyd, another Black man who died at the hands of a white police officer. Twin City African American leaders say they have guarded optimism as they watch Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, while police in Bloomington-Normal say they also want bad cops removed from the ranks. Bloomington-Normal Black Lives Matter leader Olivia Butts said watching police officer Chauvin stand trial for kil...

Greg Scott, Livermore "The board of supervisors recently took an informed and bold step to enhance agriculture and open space resource in North Livermore with their approval of the Intersect Power Aramis Agrivoltaics Project." Now the Aramis Solar Project in North Livermore is the "Aramis Agrivoltaics Project" by declaration of Dr. Larry Gosselin ("North Livermore Moving Forward", The Independent, March 18)? Lets be "informed" about Dr. Gosselins agro-eco greenwash propaganda. Building the Aram...

Christ Church Oak Brook-Butterfield will begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesdays, April 13 and 27. The church, located at 501 Oak Brook Road in Oak Brook, has agreed to be an approved vaccine clinic location.   The process began months earlier but was delayed due to a vaccine shortage, said Greg Scott, director of building operations at Christ Church Oak Brook. Scott said the church has partnered with iHealth in Naperville to distribute about 1,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine on each of...

A PLAN to operate a late night bar in Prestwich village at the site of the former Orange Tree pub has been put forward. The team behind the Manchester Deansgate venue The Liquor Store have aspirations for a bar and restaurant called Prestwich Social Club at the Radius development, off Fairfax Road. A licensing hearing at Bury Council heard from Brett Collier, one of the team behind the application, who said he wished to create an attractive venue open for breakfast and brunch and for coc...

WHYY By Medical workers are vaccinated against COVID-19 at a clinic set up in the gym at Montgomery County College in Blue Bell, Pa on Jan. 6, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Updated 4:08 p.m. Amid a worrying climb in COVID-19 case counts, there is good news on the vaccination front in Montgomery County: the state sent the county its largest delivery of vaccine to date. “For this week only, we are receiving a double shipment of the Johnson and Johnson, one-shot vaccine equaling 21,000 doses. This is in...

BELLEFONTE — In a town as historic as Bellefonte, there are bound to be a few old buildings that have fallen out of use over the years, and the former Sutton Engineering property, located on the banks of Spring Creek, is one of those buildings. The property, at 238 S. Potter St., was recently purchased by a local group of partners who hope to revitalize the space. The large complex rests on 7.87 acres and has 75,369 square feet of space, although it is not completely empty. Currently, 23,812 ...

The bill sponsored by state Rep. Camille Lilly, D-Chicago, would reduce the proximity from 500 feet to 250 feet former sex offenders may locate from protected areas. Proposed legislation could make it easier for former sex offenders in Illinois to find a home and remove the threat of being forced to move if a childcare facility locates near them. The proposal would change a requirement that forces people living in residences sanctioned under registry guidelines to move if a daycare or other pr...

Microsoft has blamed a state-sponsored hacking group from China for a series of attacks on the companys Exchange Server product, which is used to deliver email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration services.

Might we learn from the Texas electrical grid debacle? If we Californians are smug our temerity, (we) may be punished. The interpretations of what happened to the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electrical grid are baffling. Texas Governor Abbot asserted the causality was the renewable energy facet of that grid. A frozen 4,500 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines were the problem when 30,000 MW of fossil fuel electrical generation plants went offline? Then, there is the gloating by some ...

Eric Stock / WGLT McLean County prosecutors call it an unprecedented time in their office. They have tried 10 murder defendants in less than two years. The last nine defendants were convicted. McLean County States Attorney Don Knapp said he hopes the convictions have a chilling effect on crime in Bloomington-Normal. “If people haven’t figured out what happens to folks that want to use violence and usually illegal guns to settle disputes, I don’t know how much plainer we can make it,�...